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ScottCT said:
Why are people acting like Kansas is so much better than us? From what I've seen from them this season I'm very confident in our ability to beat them.
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I don't think people are. I think we're better than them and would beat them at home or on a neutral court but I would be kind of surprised if we won at Kansas. It's an incredibly difficult place to play.
 
Very happy to see the tourney MVP was Tristen Newton. AK and CS could also make a claim. But I think Newton gets a LOT of attention from the opposing teams and that makes AK and CS job easier. TN may be under the radar for some fans, but I am sure opposing coaches are more aware of what he means to UConn and concentrate their efforts to stopping him. Besides, TN deserves the accolades after so many award snubs.
 
The great thing about this win is the added bonus of sticking it to a B12 team, take that Yormark (I kid, I think). Would love the two-fer vs Kansas, even more than the UNC game.
 
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JohnnyJr said:
I’m not worried about Spencer and Karaban just saying overall as a team. Hurley has mentioned the shooting in the press conferences. If we get the numbers up we bury these teams even easier
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Not worried...because I'm very very sure we will see it go up. We're already "OK" at 32.3% through a small team sample. As a point of reference, Alabama, Colorado, and Hawaii are all shooting 48%+ from 3pt range so far this season. Tons of historical data show that's just unsustainable over a season...best-case scenario is they end up in the lower 40's.

For our 4 higher-volume shot takers, Newton & Ball are currently dragging our team % down. Newton isn't going to shoot 28% for the season (at least I hope not!). Ball is getting more and more comfortable and I'm pretty sure his % will improve over the course of the season.

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alphasigko said:
Did you see the differential in minutes played between Clingan (12) vs Johnson (27)?
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Clingan Was Sick Last Night

Just FYI as to why he looked so winded last night in limited minutes. Back to back games while battling an illness is nearly impossible to get through for a big guy I noticed he was gesturing that he couldn't breathe. Looks like some kind of respiratory issue. Hopefully not long term and...
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brassidas said:
Roumoglou is a tough player with a lot of energy, a fighter, with personality and very good at the three-pointer. It will be good if he gets more participation time from DAN HURLEY.
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We have to trust our coaching staff….this is what they do and they do it as well or better than anyone else in college. Personally I would like to see Roumoglou get a chance during real game minutes. He has good length and can shoot. Must be defense that is keeping him from getting on the court when it matters.
 
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CardiacAndre7 said:
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From the above link:

Myron Medcalf

@MedcalfByESPN

Teams I’ve seen live this season: Creighton (practice), Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue, Nebraska, FAMU, Michigan State, Duke, Xavier, Texas, Indiana, Louisville and UConn. Tennessee/UNC next week. The best team I’ve seen so far is UConn and I have not even seen them at 100 percent.

We've had the luxury of playing overseas and the additional practices that accompanied that. It would be nice to know which other teams on this list also had this advantage. None the less this coaching staff deserves kudos for how well this team is prepared and how quickly they are coalescing. This in spite of setbacks with injuries to two major pieces to the teams puzzle.
 
Not a fan of the Sunday/Monday tournament because there were less fans on Monday and crowd was not as electric as the day before. Feel atmosphere would have been much better if it was a Saturday/Sunday tournament. Assume Garden was booked on Saturday.
 
nomar said:
I'm often wrong in talent evaluation, but to me the difference between his highlight reel from Towson and Cam's from Rutgers were like night & day. I had no idea why KU and UConn were duking it out for Timberlake and was extremely happy when we got Cam instead.
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I believe Cam became available after Timberlake chose Kansas. Seems to happen a lot that UConn loses the battle but wins the war.
 
ctchamps said:
I believe Cam became available after Timberlake chose Kansas. Seems to happen a lot that UConn loses the battle but wins the war.
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Yep.

We got Emeka when Isaiah Fox (and Jamal Sampson?) rejected us. Fox ended his career at Arizona averaging 1.4 PPG as a 5th year senior.

We got the "wrong" Lamb.

And so on and so forth.

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What if we had actually gotten our 1st choice?

Imagine what would have happened if we actually got our 1st choice of a recruit. My top 3 in order 1 Isaiah Fox/Jamal Sampson – We missed out on both targets in the fall. Funnily enough, pretty sure that Arizona could have easily had Emeka Okafor but they didn’t recruit him and instead opted...
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Things have had a way of working out for us.
 
ctchamps said:
From the above link:

Myron Medcalf

@MedcalfByESPN

Teams I’ve seen live this season: Creighton (practice), Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue, Nebraska, FAMU, Michigan State, Duke, Xavier, Texas, Indiana, Louisville and UConn. Tennessee/UNC next week. The best team I’ve seen so far is UConn and I have not even seen them at 100 percent.

We've had the luxury of playing overseas and the additional practices that accompanied that. It would be nice to know which other teams on this list also had this advantage. None the less this coaching staff deserves kudos for how well this team is prepared and how quickly they are coalescing. This in spite of setbacks with injuries to two major pieces to the teams puzzle.
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Creighton , Kansas, Kentucky, Purdue, Nebraska, Xavier, UConn played overseas. FAMU, Michigan State, Duke, Texas, Indiana, Louisville did not
 
nomar said:
Yep.

We got Emeka when Isaiah Fox (and Jamal Sampson?) rejected us. Fox ended his career at Arizona averaging 1.4 PPG as a 5th year senior.

We got the "wrong" Lamb.

And so on and so forth.

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What if we had actually gotten our 1st choice?

Imagine what would have happened if we actually got our 1st choice of a recruit. My top 3 in order 1 Isaiah Fox/Jamal Sampson – We missed out on both targets in the fall. Funnily enough, pretty sure that Arizona could have easily had Emeka Okafor but they didn’t recruit him and instead opted...
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Things have had a way of working out for us.
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Or Brandon Jennings and then the shift to Kemba Walker.......
 
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SilentDog said:
Yes every time I looked at the Texas HC I thought Gus Fring good call out.
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My wife thought he looked like Erkel. Lol
Steve Urkel Reaction GIF by MOODMAN
 
ctchamps said:
I believe Cam became available after Timberlake chose Kansas. Seems to happen a lot that UConn loses the battle but wins the war.
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Good thing comes to those who wait :) I know we missed out on many top recruits but I have no doubt we’ll find some terrific transfers from the portal that will be just as good if not better than those recruits
 
alphasigko said:
Did you see the differential in minutes played between Clingan (12) vs Johnson (27)?
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Did you see the game prior? Did you see last year at all? Can we allow him to play sick and not take him out of his starting position after one game? Geez I’m thrilled on a day our #1 wasn’t his best that our #2 stepped up in a huge way. But nothing has changed nor should we even begin to think it should.
 
ScottCT said:
Why are people acting like Kansas is so much better than us? From what I've seen from them this season I'm very confident in our ability to beat them.
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They are a very good team, people see Hunter as a player Self will use correctly (and that seems accurate so far). Timberlake got a ton of juice. They had some star freshmen coming in. Their PG is thought higher of than Newton (like nearly every PG, I’ve never seen such a good player so underrated as Newton). Hunter is more proven than Clingan. Karaban a bit unproven in his new role. People still prefer Self to Hurley nationally.
 
Magic32 said:
Not a fan of the Sunday/Monday tournament because there were less fans on Monday and crowd was not as electric as the day before. Feel atmosphere would have been much better if it was a Saturday/Sunday tournament. Assume Garden was booked on Saturday.
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DMB played Friday and Saturday night.

I hear Friday was spectacular. I really enjoyed the Saturday show.
 
What a team! Guys stepping up when needed all over, AK is our clutch guy just like lat year if there is no time on the clock I want the ball in his hands. SJ with that sick putback dunk! Ball had another solid outing too even if he was less active in the 2nd half.

Just like last year “we got another guy” and Dan Hurley is showing he does know how to scheme. Sorry for doubting you.

Really happy to see Diarra have a great game even if 3s aren’t his thing, if he can play like this every game I take back my negative thoughts.

One thing about DC/SJ - Clingan is just way better at screens, not sure if it’s because he’s just so much bigger or has more game time but the flip side is SJ is mobile as hell. I love how we have another set of centers who are so different, keeps the other team on their toes.
 
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alphasigko said:
No, it would not... Just saying IMO that he needs to get his head right and his act together. He can clearly play better than this.
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It's been stated that he was under the weather. He was asking for an inhaler on the bench in the first half. It's obviously not his normal level of play. He played 30 min against Indiana and didnt have any conditioning problems. His head and act are fine
 
Clingan will be fine when he gets his stamina up. Getting so exhausted and still playing leads to bad mental mistakes and playing sloppy. He’ll be good.

One thing that may be a concern is Karaban on defense going forward. He has an issue with certain types of bigs.

Hopefully Castle gets to 100% by next Friday. Hoping he can get a couple of minutes on Monday.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Clingan will be fine when he gets his stamina up. Getting so exhausted and still playing leads to bad mental mistakes and playing sloppy. He’ll be good.

One thing that may be a concern is Karaban on defense going forward. He has an issue with certain types of bigs.

Hopefully Castle gets to 100% by next Friday. Hoping he can get a couple of minutes on Monday.
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I don’t think it’ll be an issue for Karaban. He figured it out last season.
 
jake14mw said:
Yeah, listen, Johnson had a great game last night, but let's not get crazy.

Sanogo>Last Year's Clingan>This year's Clingan>Johnson
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I want to be crazy, but I miss Adama. He grew his game so much last year, just an incredible asset.
 
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